TV Show about Parental Alienation

The world of divorce is scary for any child. But when a divorce becomes
especially toxic, children can become the target of an unrelenting crusade
by one parent to destroy the child's relationship with the other. Experts
call it parental alienation.
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Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.

Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009

The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before
smothering them and killing them, court papers said.

She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.

Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was
suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on
February 19 last year.

She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental
illness.

As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice
Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after
learning about her husband's affair.
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Nearly one in 10 girls and one in 20 boys say they have been raped or
experienced some other form of abusive violence on a date, according to
a study released Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
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More and more teens are becoming depressed. The numbers of young people
suffering from depression in the last 10 years has risen worryingly, an
expert says.

BBC, UK, August 3, 2004

Government statistics suggest one in eight adolescents now has depression.

Unless doctors recognise the problem, more could slip through the net,
says Professor Tim Kendall of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health.

Guidelines on treating childhood depression will be published next year.
Professor Kendall says a lot more needs to be done to treat the illness.
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Woman convicted of killing 3 kids after custody
battle

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, USA, August 26, 2008

HELSINKI, Finland - A court in Finland has convicted a woman of murdering
her three young children and has given her a life sentence.

The Espoo District Court says Thai-born Yu-Hsiu Fu was found guilty of
strangling her 8-year-old twin daughters and 1-year-old son in her home.

She tried to kill herself afterward.

The verdict on Tuesday says the 41-year-old woman was found to be of
sound mind at the time of the murders.

Court papers show the murders were preceded by a bitter custody battle
with her Finnish husband who was living separately from her at the time
of the murders.

A life sentence in Finland mean convicts usually serve at least 11 years
in prison.

Woman Murders 5 Year Old Boy

Saskatoon woman charged with murder in
young boy's death

CBC News, Jan 05, 2014

Saskatoon police have charged a
35-year-old woman with first-degree murder after a five-year-old boy was
found dead in a west side home.

Saskatoon police are gathering evidence from a home in the 400 block of Avenue R South after a five-year-old boy was pronounced dead there Saturday morning.

Initially investigators questioned a person of interest, who
was charged late Saturday night. The 35-year-old woman is accused of
first-degree murder in the boy's death.

In the early hours of Saturday morning emergency crews responded to a
report of an injured child in the 400 block of Avenue R South.

The boy was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said he was
suffering from a fatal injury, and while they know the cause of death no
details have been released.

"It’s hard for our officers to deal with. I can’t imagine what it is
like for the family," said Alyson Edwards with the Saskatoon police at a
press conference on Saturday afternoon. “Any type of homicide is tragic,
but when you’re dealing with a small child, five years old, it’s
awful."

Police said three people, who were related to each other, were
also in the home when officers arrived.

The names of the accused, and of the victim have not been released.
It's not clear if there is any prior connection between the two.